LETTER: Where is Ramaphosa’s outrage at threats to Uganda’s Bobi Wine?
As head of the AU why is Cyril Ramaphosa silent about Uganda? Where’s the outrage over the house arrest, detention and intimidation of Bobi Wine (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/africa/2021-01-26-bobi-wine-speaks-of-humiliation-by-ugandas-security-forces/), the main challenger in the recent Ugandan elections? More than a week after the elections the Ugandan army was still blockading his house, barring people and the press from entering. This despite a high court ruling that Wine's continued house arrest was illegal and unconstitutional.
Where’s the outrage from our international relations minister, Naledi Pandor, who is quick to criticise a true democracy such as Israel that has had three free and fair elections and is heading for a fourth in March. She has the audacity to justify her lack of response by saying that SA doesn’t interfere in the domestic affairs of other sovereign states!..
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